‘Pitiful’: experts condemn initial US aid contribution for Nepal flood victims | US news
Aid experts have denounced the US’s “embarrassing” and “pitiful” initial response to the Nepal flood disaster after the…
A strange, dark object is warping the Universe. Scientists still don’t know what it is
Astronomers have found a small, dark object that’s so impossible to see, it can only be detected by…
Scientists Solve a Superconductor Mystery Hiding in Plain Sight : ScienceAlert
As much as we now know about superconductivity – where a material conducts electrical charge without resistance or…
Runaway emu leads to unexpected police pursuit near Orange
A video of a Central West NSW police constable chasing an emu off a country road has gone…
Divers hid a camera in a lobster den. What happened next shocked them all
Back in 2024, researchers studying lobster predation on sea urchins were surprised to record footage of an unexpected…
‘It smelled like dead people’: the plan to tackle England’s illegal waste problem | Waste
“There were parents dropping their children off and then heaving from the smell,” says Liz Thompson, 45, who…
In 2025, astronomers mapped Quipu, the largest reliably identified cosmic superstructure yet—a branching filament roughly 1.4 billion light-years long, 13,000 times the diameter of the Milky Way’s stellar disc, with an estimated mass of about 200 quadrillion Suns.
Quipu is difficult to picture because even the comparisons used to make it manageable are enormous. The structure…
Researchers tested gravity across galaxy clusters separated by hundreds of millions of light-years and found it behaves almost exactly as Newton and Einstein predicted, strengthening the case for dark matter
Astronomers have discovered that stars in the outer portions of galaxies tend to move much faster than expected…
The November 2025 geomagnetic superstorm pushed satellite-positioning errors beyond 10 metres in parts of the continental US, with interference stretching nearly coast to coast. Researchers warn that had it struck during spring planting, it could have caused hundreds of millions of dollars in agricultural losses.
For many people, the geomagnetic storm of November 2025 was a night of rare auroras. For a network…
Hughenden residents relying on bottled water as Queensland’s water infrastructure reaches a crisis point
In Queensland more than half of the state’s water infrastructure is beyond its service life, but in the…
Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS arrived from the direction of Sagittarius with the highest incoming speed of any known interstellar visitor, accelerated to nearly 250,000 kilometres per hour near the Sun, and is now escaping on a hyperbolic trajectory that will never bring it back.
Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is doing something no ordinary long-period comet does. It is leaving the Solar System without…
Dark matter: Flash of light gives scientists burst of inspiration
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